INTERACTIVE COURSE

AWS Security Fundamentals: A Practical Guide to AWS IAM

Beginner

20 Lessons

1h 30min

Certificate of Completion

2 Cloud Labs

24 Quizzes

60 Code Snippets

63 Illustrations

Takeaway Skills

Learn how to write policies to control access in an AWS account.

Learn about AWS APIs and how to configure access by understanding the policy structure of AWS.

Understand how IAM evaluates access with some realistic examples.

Learn how to secure an AWS account using best practices and potential pitfalls.

Course Overview

This course is about how AWS IAM works and how to write policies to control access in an AWS account. In this course, you will learn how AWS APIs work, explore different parts of the requests made to the APIs and elaborates on how access is determined. Additionally, you will dive into how to configure access inside AWS by describing the policy structure and the 5 policy types AWS supports. Further, you will become familiar with how the elements in the request and the policies fit together. You will also de...Show More

Course Content

Introduction

AWS IAM

Access Control Basics

Where IAM controls access Access elements: Principal Access elements: Resource, Action, and Metadata CloudTrail logging

User Management using IAM

Cloud Lab

IAM Policies

Filters: Principal, Resource, and Action Filters: Condition AWS IAM Policy types: identity-based and resource-based AWS IAM Policy types: SCP, SP, and PB AWS IAM policy editor

Request Evaluation Flow and Examples

Evaluation flow Allow access Deny access Using conditions Restricted resources

Role Management Using Identity and Access Management (IAM)